The Unhackable Key Matthew 18:15-20

What is the key to resolving conflict?

At a Glance

Hackers recently shut down a hotel's electronic key system, thus locking all the guests out of their rooms. The problem was fixed only when the hotel paid the hackers a fee. This could not have happened, of course, with a simple metal key still widely in use in places other than hotels. The Bible refers to keys, but assigns to these keys a different function. In today's passage we learn how to use the right keys to resolve conflicts in the church.

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For material based on today's OT text, see "Calendar Confusion," September 7, 2008, at HomileticsOnline.com.

Electronic keycards have been familiar features in hotel rooms for years now. A guest uses such a keycard by inserting it into a slot above the door handle. More recent models, however, allow you to simply wave the keycard in front of a sensor to produce the cheery green light that seems to say, "Come on in."